Hi, I’m Noelle!
I notice how spaces feel before I notice how they look.
I’ll rearrange my apartment until something clicks, or fill it with things I’ve found secondhand that already feel like they belong to a story. I love clothes, textures, objects with history, anything that feels a little lived in and personal.
I’m also really drawn to people. Always have been. My friendships and family are a huge part of my life, and over time that has naturally extended into my work too. My clients don’t feel separate from what I do, they become part of the world I’m building while I’m in it.
I’m obsessed with film. The way scenes are held, the pacing between moments, the feeling of light doing most of the storytelling. Music does the same thing for me. It quietly shapes everything I make.
And I love the ordinary parts of life the most.
Golden hour in a park. The moon when you happen to notice it. Staying in. Game nights. Slow evenings where nothing really happens but everything still feels like something.
That’s the kind of life I pay attention to.
I’m someone who builds a life out of small things
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I grew up in a house where nothing was too small to keep.
My mom made scrapbooks for everything, we had bins of home videos, and there’s even a very chaotic corner of the internet where my childhood somehow still lives.
I was homeschooled, which made life feel smaller in some ways, but also deeper in others. The people close to me were everything. My family, my friendships, the everyday rhythm of being around the same people and noticing the smallest changes in them.
I documented all of it without really thinking about it. Random moments, inside jokes, the slightly silly things that didn’t feel important at the time but somehow ended up meaning everything later.
I still notice those same things now. I still build my life the same way. I still get stuck on light, pacing, atmosphere. I still care deeply about ordinary moments and the feeling they carry when you pay attention long enough.
Golden Soul came from that way of seeing.
A desire to document life as it actually is, in the spaces it’s actually lived, without turning it into something else first.
Over time, it’s become more than just photography.
The people I work with don’t feel like “clients.” They become part of my world for a little while. I care about them, their relationships, their season of life, the things they might not even realise they’ll miss yet.
Because I know how quickly ordinary life becomes something you wish you had paid more attention to.
That’s where this started.
HOW THIS STARTED
— Marc Riboud
"Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”
Not from big milestones, but from learning how much the in-between actually matters.
And I never really grew out of that.
A Still Frame From Real Life
The story behind the Golden soul media logo
The logo for Golden Soul is one of my favorite parts of this brand because it captures the heart of what I believe in.
It's a simple scene: a woman sitting in her garden with her son, washing hanging on the line, their home quietly in the background.
Nothing extraordinary is happening.
And that's exactly why it matters.
The older I get, the more convinced I become that these are the moments we end up missing most. The everyday routines. The homes we lived in. The way a season of life felt before it changed. The things that seem ordinary while we're living them, but become priceless once they're gone.
That's why this scene felt so important.
The washing on the line represents the beauty of everyday life. The home represents the spaces that hold our stories. The mother and child represent connection, presence, and the people who make a place feel like home.
In many ways, the logo feels like one of my photographs: a quiet moment, a lived-in space, a piece of real life preserved exactly as it was.
Because that's what Golden Soul has always been about.
Not creating moments that look meaningful, but recognizing the meaning that's already there.
Paying attention to the beauty in ordinary life and holding onto it before it becomes a memory.
I rotate comfort movies like they’re emotional support objects. About Time, Interstellar, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Proposal, Harry Potter.
I think the movie "About Time" is probably the closest thing to how I understand love and life.
I care way too much about film details, camera movement, pacing, silence between scenes. The opening rain scene in A Big Bold Beautiful Journey and the one take in Baby Driver genuinely rewired something in me.
I love music in a very all consuming way. Dawes, Medium Build, Fontaines D.C., Feist, Yeah Yeah Yeahs. It’s basically always playing in the background of everything I do.
I will put pickles on almost anything. This is non negotiable.
I am deeply invested in small objects, clay fridge magnets, pins, scraps of paper I swear I’ll turn into a journal someday.
I cry at everything. Songs, commercials, small moments, nothing is safe.
A walk for coffee and something sweet, a thrift stop, sushi, and ending the day reading something that shifts my brain slightly.
This Is What I’m All About